As people reply more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate.
The famous baseball player Yogi Berra once said, "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practise. But in practise, there is." Thus, while the critics of technology try to paint a dubious picture of technological innovations by referring to it as almost insidious to human race, the reality is far from this. It ultimately comes down to the choices that we make and how each technology is put to use.
The first thing to do here is for one to accept that the growth of technology is unstoppable. From the discovery of elemental Silicon to the first transistor, to CD players and to the blue tooth player of recent times, technology has only accelerated. Once we have accepted to be a fact, then comes the question of how to put these technologies to the best practise.
The idea that human thinking will ONLY deteriorate with technology is a woefully flawed argument. Human mind is a complex device and it is known scientifically to adapt to its changing environment. Take the example of modelling a complex nuclear reactor. It is a highly complicated device with a number of input and output variables with intermediate variables and external factors that affects its working, making the modelling process a highly challenging one. A genius might be able to derive this model on a white board in a class room in about an hour. However, for the less erudite, this is surely arduous. It is the development of software that has simplified such complex processes beyond comparison.
Now-a-days, complex simulations are easily possible using mathematical tools and software like MATLAB and ORCAD and even, complicated electrical and magnetic circuits can be modelled using such software. Thus, rather than limiting the human mind, these technologies have widened the horizons to the possibilities making sky the limit. We are able to model something as vast as the space, as dangerous as the fire and as small as an atom using technology and use them to predict the unpredictable like the weather. These advancements makes humans think in a way that they never used to before.
Likewise, the solution to a 4 dimensional, quadratic, 6 variable equation was beyond solving when the technology available to us was painfully limited. But now, it takes less than a few seconds to get the correct answer. Eventually, the same human minds will work to make these few seconds to micro seconds, keeping it sharp and polished.
And, what of all the other areas? Entertainment field - where one can even change channels by thinking, in transportation - cars that can brake automatically in case of danger of collision - thanks to technology which is not prone to fatigue unlike humans and so on.
To conclude, it is safe to say that, in today's world, with so much going on in everyone's life, it is some times nice not to think so much. Consider an Alzheimer patient. His life will be so much more easier if he does not have to think - considering he cannot. A smart home with the right AI tools would make his life easier and peaceful.
The possibilities are endless. It is up to the us, to use our minds wisely to exploit these possibilities in the best possible way.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, likewise, second, so, then, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 79.0 58.6224719101 135% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2653.0 2235.4752809 119% => OK
No of words: 547.0 442.535393258 124% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85009140768 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83611736076 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82347058366 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 300.0 215.323595506 139% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.54844606947 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 850.5 704.065955056 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 54.8310126884 60.3974514979 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.4827586207 118.986275619 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8620689655 23.4991977007 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.20689655172 5.21951772744 42% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 8.0 4.97078651685 161% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 10.0 7.80617977528 128% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.83258426966 290% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.163410232277 0.243740707755 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0380386752022 0.0831039109588 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0456624031131 0.0758088955206 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0622364388449 0.150359130593 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0266713783674 0.0667264976115 40% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 14.1392134831 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.85 12.1639044944 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 136.0 100.480337079 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 65.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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